Conservatives

(CNSNews.com) – New polling data from Gallup on President Barack Obama’s job approval show that he is least popular in those states where people self-identify as “conservative” – in states, for example, such as Alabama, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. At the same time, the numbers show Obama is most popular in the one area where more people self-identify as “liberals”: the District of Columbia.

A July 19 poll on Obama’s job approval showed he was least popular (lowest ranking and up) in Wyoming, with an approval rating of only 29 percent, followed by Utah, with 34 percent approval; West Virginia, 34 percent; Idaho, 34 percent; and Oklahoma, 37 percent.

An earlier Gallup poll from February ranked the most conservative states to the most liberal, including the District of Columbia. D.C. and Vermont ranked, respectively, as the most liberal with 36.3 percent and 28 percent of people self-identifying as liberals....

(CNSNews.com) - Conservatives are more than twice as likely as liberals to express very strong patriotism, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll in which 48 percent of conservatives said they were “extremely patriotic,” but only 19 percent of liberals made that claim.

The poll asked respondents this question: “How patriotic are you? Would you say extremely patriotic, very patriotic, somewhat patriotic, or not especially patriotic?” The poll surveyed a random sample of 1,014 adults from June 11-13, and the margin of error was plus-or-minus 4 percentage points.

Overall, 72 percent of Americans said they were either extremely (32 percent) or very patriotic (42 percent), with another 19 percent saying they were somewhat patriotic. Only 6 percent said they were "not especially patriotic"...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. | A Republican no longer, Gov. Charlie Crist just can't seem to get enough of President Obama or Democratic priorities.

The independent is behaving more like the independent he is in Florida's wildly unpredictable Senate race, standing with the president, courting organized labor and vetoing legislation to ban embryonic-stem-cell research at the state's universities.

Conservatives he once wooed say it's the mark of a political chameleon - or worse. The state GOP's news release says, "You can't spell Charlie without 'lie.' " But Mr. Crist's path to statewide election goes in a different direction now, far, far away from the "tea party" activists who drove him from the GOP...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- House Democratic leaders canceled a planned vote for today on the DISCLOSE Act, campaign finance legislation pro-life groups oppose because it would place stringent new limits on their ability to operate. They say the limits would curtail communications on legislation and politicians' voting records.

Struggling to unite conservative and liberal Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top lieutenants canceled the vote

The problems came in response to exceptions top Democrats included in the bill targeted towards removing the objections the NRA had to the legislation...

MADISON, Wis. | Until recently, Wisconsin seemed to be a Democratic strategist's lock - a blue state getting bluer. Its two senators were well-established liberal Democrats. The governor's office and both houses of the legislature were in Democratic hands. And President Barack Obama won the state in 2008 by 14 percentage points, one of his largest victory margins anywhere.

But something went awry on the way to the permanent Democratic hegemony.

A conservative insurgency - headed by a Republican candidate who actively courts, of all things, the "tea party" - is now making a strong bid for governor. And across the state, Democrats suddenly find themselves fighting to hold seats they once took for granted...

(CNSNews.com) – The Tea Party movement and its grassroots political activists are defined by loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, limited government and individual liberty -- not social issues such as abortion. That's what one analyst argued at a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Wednesday.

Journalist and author Jonah Goldberg said the movement should avoid cultural issues such as abortion if it is to have continued success.

A conservative congressman, however, disagreed...

Karl Rove says evangelical Christians are looking for candidates who will live out the values they espouse -- and if they don't find them, those believers will simply stay home from the polling places.

Evangelical Christians are typically an important contingent of voters for conservative Republican candidates. Polls following the 2006 elections show many Christians did not turn out and vote because they had issues with many of the candidates who were not reliably conservative. Karl Rove, senior advisor to former President George W. Bush and his deputy chief of staff, talked with OneNewsNow concerning what drives Christians to the polls...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- For only the second time in any previous Gallup survey, almost half of Americans say Democrats, led by President Barack Obama and his pro-abortion allies in Congress, are too liberal. Voters are less likely to say Republicans, who tend to be pro-life, are too conservative.

In the past two years, Americans have become increasingly likely to describe the Democratic Party's views as "too liberal," with 49 percent saying so now.

That compares with 46 percent who said that in 2009 and 39 percent who said that in 2008, when Obama won the presidential election.

Looked at another way, Americans said the views of the pro-abortion Democratic Party were just right by 50 percent in 2008, by 42 percent in 2009 and by just 38 percent of Americans now...

Actress Janine Turner, who also runs a group designed to inspire young people to study the U.S. Constitution, said that the new health care law and how it was crafted were “not based on what a true Republic represents or what our Founding Fathers would have liked.”

She also said there likely will be “some payback” in the November elections because of the health care law.

At an event to launch her new organization, “Constituting America,” CNSNews.com asked Turner about the mandate in the law requiring every American to carry health insurance or face a penalty and that, in supporting this, had “members of Congress deliberately and willfully violated the Constitution, or do you think that they just don’t know the law and that’s why they voted in favor of the bill?”....

(CNSNews.com) – A conservative Republican congressman from Georgia is calling for congressional hearings to investigate actions by the U.S. military in recent weeks to cancel or rescind invitations that had been made to two prominent conservative Christian leaders -- Franklin Graham and Tony Perkins -- to speak at military prayer events.

“I think that we need to have some hearings on this because this seems to be something that the military is spending some energy on and we need to raise the visibility on it,” Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) told CNSNews.com.

Last week, the Army “disinvited” Franklin Graham, the well-known son of the Rev. Billy Graham, to speak at the Pentagon on May 6 -- the National Day of Prayer -- after a military advocacy group objected that Graham had characterized Islam after the 9/11 attacks as “evil” and “wicked.”...